The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living Audiobook (Free)

‘Mix in one component Diane Mott ­Davidson’s delightful culinary ventures with many tablespoons of Jan Karon’s country living and quirky character types, bake in 350 degrees for just one high and warm love.’ –Library Journal

A full-hearted novel about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home-and that sometimes the best things are located when you didn’t even understand you were looking

When Olivia Rawlings-pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club-sets not only her about THE TOWN Baker’s Guidebook to Country Living flambéed dessert but the whole building alight, she escapes to the most comforting place she can think of-the idyllic city of Guthrie, Vermont, house of Bag Balm, the country’s longest-running contra dance, and her closest friend Hannah. However the getaway becomes something more enduring when Margaret Hurley, the cantankerous, sweater-set-wearing owner from the Sugars Maple Inn, presents Livvy employment. Broke and understanding that her days at the club are numbered, Livvy accepts.

Livvy goes with her larger-than-life, uberenthusiastic pet, Salty, into a sugarhouse on the inn’s real estate and starts creating her mouthwatering desserts for the citizens of Guthrie. She shortly uncovers the true reason she’s been hired-to help Margaret reclaim the inn’s blue ribbon position at the annual county fair apple pie competition.

Using the joys of a fragrant kitchen, the audio of banjos and fiddles being tuned within a barn, and the sharp scent of the orchard simply outside the entry way, Livvy soon finds herself immersed in little town life. So when she matches Martin McCracken, the Guthrie native who has came back from Seattle to are likely his ailing dad, Livvy comes to recognize that she may not be as alone nowadays as she once believed.

But another new appearance takes the city by surprise, and Livvy must decide whether to do what she will best and flee-or stay and lastly discover what this means to belong. Olivia Rawlings may finally discover out that the life span you want may possibly not be the main one you expected-it could be even better.